Legal Opinion

Cabral v. United States Department of Justice

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided November 12, 2009No. 07-1633, 07-1640PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated opinion addressing two related appeals. Each appeal arises from Andrea J. Cabral (“Cabral”), the sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, barring Sheila J. Porter (“Porter”), then a nurse practitioner working as a contractor, from the Suffolk County House of Correction (“the HOC”) on June 10, 2003. 1

In Porter v. Cabral (“the underlying case”), Porter brought suit against Cabral, the Suffolk County Sheriffs Department (“the SCSD”), and Suffolk County (collectively “the Suffolk defendants”) claiming that, in violation of her First Amendment free…

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